Director of IT/Digital Programmes

2 weeks ago


Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom City of Bristol College Full time
The University of Bristol is currently recruiting for a new Director of IT Digital Programmes.

Playing a key role as part of the IT Senior Leadership team, the role has responsibility for leadership and delivery of a c£100m digital change portfolio centred around the University's overarching digital transformation programme as part of our new digital strategy.

There are currently more than 50 projects in progress simultaneously, with a further 400 in the pipeline.

Right now, our key in-flight projects cover delivery of a new modern network, a full re-work of identify and access management and its principles, a major cloud migration, a new Business Intelligence platform and the underlying data architecture, and major technology implementations that underpin the bleeding edge research housed in our Bristol Digital Futures Institute.

You'll be responsible for defining the criteria for the control and management of all change work streams, ensuring the appropriate project management frameworks are in place.

You will create capacity and capability to deliver all IT programmes, projects, technical architecture, and organisational technical change across the University.

The Director of IT Digital Programmes will be responsible for the development of a comprehensive and externally auditable executive summary framework that provides accurate and transparent reporting of the portfolio's progress to milestones.

This will include financial performance measures, strategic risks and issues, high-level resource allocation and other strategic KPIs required.
You'll manage our strategic IT programme, co-ordinating and directing end user input and value management strategy.

As a key part of the IT senior management team, this role holds shared leadership responsibility to deliver the IT department's transformation programme, creating team structures, governance processes and value propositions that support the department's transition to a new IT operating model.

Responsibility for overarching portfolio resource planning across permanent, fixed term and contractor staffing to ensure the IT programme delivery capability is effectively resourced.

Responsibility for the full financial control, both operational and capital expenditure budgets, and benefit realisation of the IT capital programme.

Aligning of all IT programmes to assist the successful delivery of other University strategic objectives.

Influence and inform the development and delivery of the University-wide IT digital strategy through membership of University Programme & Investment Boards, and other senior-level University committees.

Establish and promote best practice across the IT operating model. Focus on programme & project management delivery methodology to drive efficiency and early benefit realisation across the University.

A strong people leader who can talk us through their management principles - you'll often need to manage work through people outside of the change environment, while getting the absolute maximum out of the portfolio teams.

Gravitas – extremely well honed stakeholder management ability with people of all levels of an organisation, both technical and non-technical.

40 days of annual leave per year including bank holidays
~ Automatic entry to a generous pension scheme (14.Hybrid working environment
~ Inclusive culture, valuing the diversity of thought, beliefs and background

This advert will close at 23:59 UK time on Sunday 30th June 2024.

The University of Bristol aims to be a place where everyone feels able to be themselves and do their best in an inclusive working environment where all colleagues can thrive and reach their full potential.

We want to attract, develop, and retain individuals with different experiences, backgrounds and perspectives – particularly people of colour, LGBT+ and disabled people - because diversity of people and ideas remains integral to our excellence as a global civic institution.

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